"The idea for the Web site came from the sharing of Grateful Dead music and keeping up with their tradition," Christine Bunting, head of special collections and archives at the school's McHenry Library said.

Using the Web to include contributions is a natural way to keep the legacy of openness alive for a band whose following would probably be uploading cell phone concert video to YouTube today.Their 1970s social network of tie-dye wearing, pot-smoking, VW van-driving, peace-loving loyals would very likely be tweeting their travels as they follow the group from one stop to another.